BioPharm International-09-02-2009

To assess current trends in outsourcing, BioPharm International turned to Mark Douglas, PhD, strategic business development manager, Avecia Biologics Ltd; Geoffrey M. Glass, senior vice president of strategy, corporate development and business integration, Patheon Inc.; Rob Gustines, director of marketing, KBI Biopharma, Inc.; Jon S. Kauffman, PhD, director, method development & method validation and biopharmaceutical services, Lancaster Laboratories; Roger Lias, PhD, president, Eden Biodesign, Inc.; John A. McCarty, vice president, formulation sciences and drug delivery, Azopharma; and Michiel E. Ultee, PhD, vice president, process sciences, Laureate Pharma, Inc.

To assess current trends in outsourcing, BioPharm International turned to Mark Douglas, PhD, strategic business development manager, Avecia Biologics Ltd; Geoffrey M. Glass, senior vice president of strategy, corporate development and business integration, Patheon Inc.; Rob Gustines, director of marketing, KBI Biopharma, Inc.; Jon S. Kauffman, PhD, director, method development & method validation and biopharmaceutical services, Lancaster Laboratories; Roger Lias, PhD, president, Eden Biodesign, Inc.; John A. McCarty, vice president, formulation sciences and drug delivery, Azopharma; and Michiel E. Ultee, PhD, vice president, process sciences, Laureate Pharma, Inc.

To assess current trends in outsourcing, BioPharm International turned to Mark Douglas, PhD, strategic business development manager, Avecia Biologics Ltd; Geoffrey M. Glass, senior vice president of strategy, corporate development and business integration, Patheon Inc.; Rob Gustines, director of marketing, KBI Biopharma, Inc.; Jon S. Kauffman, PhD, director, method development & method validation and biopharmaceutical services, Lancaster Laboratories; Roger Lias, PhD, president, Eden Biodesign, Inc.; John A. McCarty, vice president, formulation sciences and drug delivery, Azopharma; and Michiel E. Ultee, PhD, vice president, process sciences, Laureate Pharma, Inc.

To assess current trends in separation and purification, BioPharm International turned to Mandar Dixit, head of product management?filtration technologies, Sartorius Stedim Biotech; Günter Jagschies, senior director of strategic customer relations, life sciences, biotechnologies, GE Healthcare; Richard Pearce, program director of purification, Millipore Corporation; and Jon Petrone, global technical director, Pall Life Sciences.

To assess current trends in outsourcing, BioPharm International turned to Mark Douglas, PhD, strategic business development manager, Avecia Biologics Ltd; Geoffrey M. Glass, senior vice president of strategy, corporate development and business integration, Patheon Inc.; Rob Gustines, director of marketing, KBI Biopharma, Inc.; Jon S. Kauffman, PhD, director, method development & method validation and biopharmaceutical services, Lancaster Laboratories; Roger Lias, PhD, president, Eden Biodesign, Inc.; John A. McCarty, vice president, formulation sciences and drug delivery, Azopharma; and Michiel E. Ultee, PhD, vice president, process sciences, Laureate Pharma, Inc.

To assess current trends in single-use bioprocessing equipment, BioPharm International turned to John Boehm, bioprocessing business unit manager, Colder Products Company; Mandar Dixit, head of product management?filtration technologies, Sartorius Stedim Biotech; Geoff Hodge, managing director of process technology Xcellerex, Inc.; Günter Jagschies, senior director of strategic customer relations, life sciences, biotechnologies, GE Healthcare; Mani Krishnan, director of product management, Mobius single-use technologies, Millipore Corporation; and Jerry Martin, senior vice president of scientific affairs, Pall Life Sciences, and board chairman and technology chair at BPSA.

To assess current trends in laboratory equipment, BioPharm International turned to Francis Bach, North American sales director, Asahi Kasei TechniKrom, Inc.; Erika Lapinskas, PhD, product manager, Sartorius Stedim Biotech; Jeffrey R. Mazzeo, PhD, biopharmaceutical business director, Waters Corporation; Amber Ratcliff, product manager, analytical sensors, Hamilton Company; and Josh Silverstone, marketing director, Millipore Corp.

To assess current trends in information technology, automation, and process control, BioPharm International turned to Rick E. Cooley, market development manager?process analytics, Dionex Corporation, and James Erickson, president and chief executive officer, Blue Mountain Quality Resources, Inc.

To assess current trends in fermentation and cell culture equipment, BioPharm International turned to Geoff Hodge, managing director of process technology, Xcellerex, Inc.; Günter Jagschies, senior director of strategic customer relations, life sciences, biotechnologies, GE Healthcare; and Rich Mirro, product manager, New Brunswick Scientific.

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